The dark side of SEO can be crippling to a business if they aren’t aware of how to fight back. Here are four negative (or black hat) SEO tactics to keep a keen eye out for, and how you can protect your site – and your business – from being a victim.

The Domain Authority metric was developed by Moz as a means of quantifying your website's relative importance as a whole - its authority. Like most SEO metrics, this number fluctuates based on several factors, and to improve your authority, you first need to determine where your website stands among the others online.

You might not be a media and content-oriented company, but you should still consider the perks of having videos for your products and services. According to MWP, online video now accounts for half of all traffic on mobile alone, and 59% of senior executives say that they will opt for video when given the choice between video and text.

Rich results are the search results which have a little extra panache, in which Google displays more information about the result rather than just the traditional title, URL and meta description. In this guide, we'll look at what's new with rich results in 2018, as well as how to give yourself the best chance of getting them.

A recent data release from Google has revealed that personalized search is becoming increasingly common among internet users, as they turn to search engines for personal advice and recommendations. What can content marketers do to take advantage of this trend?

Google launches a new version of its Chrome web browser today (February 15), which will include an in-built ad blocker to try and eradicate intrusive ads from the browsing experience. There are some clear standards and some unanswered questions relating to this new approach, so what exactly do marketers need to know?

Slow-loading web pages can slowly become the leading cause of high bounce rates, low user engagement, lost traffic opportunities, and abandoned sales journeys. If you have a WordPress site, there are a number of easy and effective methods you can use that will significantly increase your site's loading speed.

In an increasingly digital world, where everybody’s eyes are glued to a screen, most advertising can seem like white noise. So you want to make sure you’re designing and promoting worthwhile ads in a proper venue. Here we’ll go over some simple best practices for creating a display ad.

Where is the biggest opportunity in marketing at the moment? With 3.5 billion searches per day being carried out by Google, not to mention on vertical-specific websites like Amazon, YouTube and Pinterest, there is a huge sea of data available on customer intent which marketers should be taking advantage of.

Click-through rate (CTR) has historically been an important factor in gauging the quality of results in information retrieval tasks - and search is no exception. But to truly understand how Google interprets "success" in search results, we need to understand something called search satisfaction.

Over the past decade, SEO has been growing into its position as a critical marketing channel for businesses. If you're new to this environment, or have new team members that need to be trained up, we've outlined some of the best (and importantly, free) SEO training courses and websites to take your knowledge to the next level.

Domain Authority (DA) is a metric that serves as a handy heuristic in the SEO industry. Put simply, it provides insight into how likely a site is to rank for specific keywords, based on the SEO authority it holds. There are numerous tools that can help us arrive at these useful scores.

In Part 1 of this series, we broke down how to effectively use different channels for B2B sales. In this post, we’ll cover creating smart segmentation, and making use of the right content for mid-funnel remarketing and your overall nurture.

We have entered a new era of search where SEO and content marketing have converged. AI technologies are providing a whole new world of insights so marketers can make impactful – data-informed – decisions. The AI revolution is here and now, and early adopters in SEO and content marketing are already one step ahead of the competition.

The rise of voice search is transforming search engines into “answer engines”, which require a different strategy and set of ingredients for success. This strategy has come to be known as AEO, or answer engine optimization. So how does AEO differ from the time-tested discipline of SEO? Why is it important? And how can SEOs go about optimizing for answer engines?

Google launches a new version of its Chrome web browser today (February 15), which will include an in-built ad blocker to try and eradicate intrusive ads from the browsing experience. There are some clear standards and some unanswered questions relating to this new approach, so what exactly do marketers need to know?